Interesting Items From World Condensed for Readers
Prohibitionists adopt the camel as their emblem. In Philadelphia two traction cars collided in dense fog injuring dozens. Kansas petitions seek full state ballot access for Independence party. Bank robbed in Nebraska of 400 dollars in silver. White House reception for Fisheries Congress delegates in Washington. Cholera cases spread among nobility in St Petersburg. Panic hits the well to do amid city exodus. Oklahoma banking board to return assessments to national banks. Yaqui Indians fatally shoot Rafael J. Ruiz in Hermosillo. Minot brick kiln disaster burns two men alive. Washington monument wireless station denied. Garden City Kansas to send 25 to National Irrigation Congress. Kansas product exhibit planned. Nine enslaved men sent to prison from Mexico, Missouri. Maj. John H. Stone faces court martial at Fort Leavenworth. Western Association pennant to Topeka with .641% win rate. Myra King and pupils drown while fording the Cottonwood. Cholera response prompts a Russian cholera expert unit. Kansas railroad commissioners demand Missouri Pacific repairs. Horton dispatcher Killed in auto race crash. Star of Bengal wrecked off Coronation Island 110 drowned. First rain in Chicago since August. Death by lockjaw from splinter in Concordia. Indiana assembly convenes in Indianapolis. Carnegie Steel at Homestead runs double time. U S troops guard Manila water sources from cholera. Busch Glass plant to reopen October 1. Motte Frank, 12, electrocuted but to recover. Kansas City Southern seeks injunction against Arkansas 2-cent fare. Hog shipments to Garden City reflect bids. Carpenters and Joiners hold two-week convention in Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Independence Party
Kansas
Topeka
Bank of
A. Grass
Goehner
Neb
White House
International Fisheries Congress
Washington
St. Petersburg
State Banking Board of
Oklahoma
Rafael J. Ruiz
Hermosillo
Mex
Minot
N. D
E. W. Drake
Clarence Bailey
Washington Monument
Garden City
Kan
National Irrigation Congress
Albuquerque
N. M
Mexico
John H. Stone
Fort Leavenworth Military
Slavens
Wichita
Oklahoma City
Cottonwood River
Chase County
Myra King
Russia
Public Health
Ma ‘Cine Hospital Service
Berean
United States
Kansas Railroad
George Gould
E. H. Hartman
Missouri Pacific
Horton, Kan
J.L. Robinson
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Atchison, Kan
Star of Bengal
Coronation Island
Alaskan
Chicago
Fred Fleming
Concordia
Indiana Femeral Assembly
Indianapolis
Hanaley
Carnegie Steel Works
Homestead
Manila
Busch Glass Manufacturings Company
St. Louis
Motte Frank
Piri
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Arkansas Commission
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Salt Lake City
Wright brothers set air endurance record at Le Mans
Wilbur Wright maintained flight for 1 hour 31 minutes 51 seconds over Le Mans to surpass his brother Orville’s mark, covering about 61 miles before a large audience. Other items note a Missouri murder case with mob vigilantism, railroad rate stay, corporate failures, strikes, fires, epidemics, and a shipwreck sans casualties.
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Lemans
France
Wilbur Wright
Orville
Albert Filley
Kingston
Cassidy & Gray Commission Company
Quincy
Chicago
Peoria
Iowa
Illinois
Mercantile Securities Company
Hannibal
Atlas Portland Cement Company
St. Petersburg
Paris
Greensburg
St. Louis
Thomas H. Benton
Swift & Co
South St. Joseph
Sperry
Albany
Australia
Manila
San Diego
Cal
Notable Obituaries and Political Moves Across U S Headlines
A compilation of notable deaths includes Gen John A Halderman former Leavenworth resident and Civil War major dying in Washington and Dr Frank H Snow eminent entomologist and Kansas University chancellor passing away at 68. Political buzz covers Tafts campaign stops Brook Indiana Roosevelt Bryan letters Hearst Haskell charges and Hughes Kansas tour.
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John A. Halderman
Leavenworth
Kan
Kansas
Washington
Taft
Brook
Ind
George Ade
John Robinson
Cincinnati
Maud
Windsor
William F. Stewart
Coast Artillery
Frank H. Snow
Kansas University
Bellfield
Wiz
Carmichael
Church of England
Montreal
John Murray Dowie
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Michigan
Fielding C. Lewis
Oklahoma
Gov. Hughes
New York
Wichita
Kansas City
Lemuel G. Trott
Boston
Charles G. Vanflest
Supreme Court of Colorado
Los Angeles
Cal
James T. McCleary
Minnesota
Congress
Rebecca Wheaton
May Wheaton
Netroit
Mich
Historic Missouri home burns near Normandy estate linked to 1816 quake
Fire consumes the Shelter once Turner mansion near Normandy twelve miles west of St. Louis. William H Lee of Merchants Laclede National Bank and family flee in night attire. The home carries a history tied to Charles Lucas and the 1816 New Madrid event. Dr Jesse receives Doctor of Laws at Columbia convocation as university enrollment grows to 1788.
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Normandy
St. Louis
William H. Lee
Merchants-Laclede National Bank of
Charles Lucas
New Madrid
Lucas
Thomas H. Benton
Benton
Bloody Island
Jesse
Richard Henry Jesse
University of Missouri
Columbia
Albert Ross Hill
University
Carnegie Foundation Fund
Grain Tax Upheld In Kansas City Case
The Kansas City board of trade lost an injunction suit against the state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners. Judge Park in the circuit court at Kansas City ruled against grain dealers, upholding a weighing fee of 65 cents on in and out cars. The law had been enforced for years and will not be disturbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Board of Trade
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Judge Park
Kansas City
Board of Trade
State Board
Mrs. G. D. Burgess Dies At 68 In Jefferson City
Mrs. G D Burgess wife of Missouri Supreme Court Justice G D Burgess died at the family residence in Jefferson City after years of rheumatism illness She was 68 and hailed from Kentucky Marshalls and Trimbles families Her maiden name Cordelia Trimble and she was a niece of Chief Justice John Marshall of the U S Supreme Court
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G. D. Burgess
Burgess
Missouri Supreme Court
Jefferson City
Kentucky
Marshalls
Trimbles
Cordelia Trimble
John Marshall
United States Supreme Court
Kansas City Pioneer James Hunter Dies at 32
James Hunter 32 a long time Kansas City resident died at the Harris house 430 Westport Avenue near where his father once stopped in Westport. He learned the garry trade as a boy and later ran freighting to Santa Fe over the old Santa Fe trail, making a fortune before quitting the business in 1871.
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Kansas City
Westport
James Hunter
Harris
Westport Avenue
Santa Fe
Monument unveiled for Allan McDowell in Kansas City
Ceremonies mark the unveiling of a monument to Allan McDowell past grand lecturer of Missouri Masons who died May 20, 1906 at Mount Washington cemetery Kansas City. The stone bears Masonic insignia and the poem Life Death and Life Again. The monument cost 2700 dollars.
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Allan M’dowell
Allan McDowell
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Missouri
Kansas City
Mount Washington Cemetery
Masonic Order
McDowell
Rock falls at Webb City mine traps Henry Cameron
A rock slab at the Big Shaft mine operated by the American Lead Zinc and Smelting Company in Webb City fell and trapped Henry Cameron, an unmarried miner. The roof fragment measured 1,980 square feet in area.
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American Lead, Zinc and Smelting Company
Webb City
Henry Cameron
One Missourian Resigns From Sheriff Ticket
Silas A. Johnson resigns from the Stone County sheriff ticket as a Republican after earlier renomination by a large August primary majority. Johnson says he would rather run his farm than hold office.
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Silas A. Johnson
Stone County
Johnson
State Penitentiary Installs Modern Power Plant
An appropriation funded a new power plant at the state penitentiary. Completed and activated August 1, the plant cost about 155000 and is projected to cut fuel bills by roughly 67 percent in the first month of operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penitenary
Missouri Abstractor Charles Evans Cleared of County Records Theft
After a 20 hour jury deliberation the state case against Charles Evans of Pineville charged with stealing McDonald county records ended in a not guilty verdict. Evans faced charges of taking county records but was acquitted by the jury.
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State of
Missouri
Charles Evans
Pineville
McDonald County
Log accident kills Oak Grove man hauling logs
James Suddath twenty years old son of Benjamin F Suddath of Warrensburg died when a large log slipped from a wagon and fell on him while he hauled saw logs to a mill seven miles southeast of Oak Grove. The logger was killed.
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Oak Grove
James Suddath
Benjamin F. Suddath
Warrensburg
Oek Grove
Strike of Car Men Comes to Peaceful Settlement
The Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain car repairers on strike since May 27 have settled. The company will rehire the workers without prejudice as vacancies arise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain System
Mecklfred le Dead McElfresh Passes in Missouri
O E McElfresh post office for northwest Missouri dies at home in Pattonsburg after a stroke of paralysis. The report notes his death occurred recently.
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Mecklfred le
O. E. McElfresh
Northwest Missouri
Pattonsburg
Bees Store Honey in Lone Jack Church
Bees found in a knothole of the Christian church in Lone Jack Jackson county stored 200 pounds of honey during the summer. Three colonies worked there and the knot hole will remain open inviting the bees to return next summer.
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Lone Jack
Jackson County
Christian Church
Two Barely Escape Death At Oriole Mine
C Stillwell a Columbus college graduate was dropped 65 feet into a shaft at the Oriole mine suffering a double fracture of his right leg and internal injuries. D Plumblee the holsterman was caught by a bystander as he fell into the shaft in a fainting fit that caused Stillwell to fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oriole
C. Stillwell
Columbus
D. Plumlee
Stillwell
Ninth Missouri Cavalry Holds 21st Reunion in Springfield
The 21st annual reunion of the Ninth Missouri cavalry was held in Springfield with nearly 200 members attending from 10 states. The regiment, which fought in Missouri Arkansas and Tennessee during the Civil War, may hold its last reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Missouri Cavalry
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Springfield
Missouri Bar Holds 26th Annual Session at Perthe Springs
Lawyers gathered in Warrensburg for the Missouri Bar Association annual session. J. W. Suddath delivered the welcome address, R. T. Bailey presided and reviewed the year’s work, with W. C. Marshall of St. Louis responding.
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Warrensburg
Missouri Bar Association
Perthe Springs
J. W. Suddath
W. C. Marshall
St. Louis
R. T. Bailey
Harrisonville
Trolley Line Plans Stretch Across Missouri
The Kansas City Southeastern Traction Co seeks court approval to lay tracks across public roads from Leeds to Lee's Summit. The project is financed for 5 million dollars, with founder C. A. S. Sims stating extensions to Jefferson City and ultimately St. Louis are planned.
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Kansas City
Woman Accused of Peonage in Saline County Case
Martha E. Robertson of near Mount Leonard Saline County swore a U S warrant in Kansas City alleging Belle Kays also of Saline County held her sister in slavery for 33 years and mistreated her in a peonage scheme.
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Martha E. Robertson
Mount Leonard
Saline County
United States
Kansas City
Belle Kays
Change in a Kirksville Paper Creates New Management
The Kirksville Weekly Democrat s incorporates with 5000 in capital stocked by Kirksville democrats. Samuel Willey retires as editor and becomes business manager. James Ellison, son of the late Judge Ellison, takes the editorship.
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Kirksville
Democrats
Kirksville Democrats
Samuel Willey
James Ellison
Judge Ellison
Second Judicial Circuit
Saloon Petitions Forgeries Probe In Buchanan County
A special grand jury will investigate alleged wholesale forgeries in petitions for dram shop licenses in Buchanan County outside St Joseph. Petitions to county court recently found to include dead persons and others who cheated by signing.
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Buchanan County
St Joseph
Enrollment surge at Warrensburg state normal school
On the second day of fall term the Warrensburg state normal school enrolled 600 students, 108 more than the prior year. Officials expect enrollment to reach 800 before October and 200 more by October 1.
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Warrensberg
State Normal School
Warrensburg
Bail Granted to Alleged Layer in Fatal Beating Case
Judge A H Waller at Maberly ordered Irwin Carter detained on charges of killing Thomas Bagly Jr and set bail at ten thousand dollars. The alleged assault occurred between Seth and Metentile with witnesses describing a confrontation that led to the fatality.
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A. H. Waller
Maberly
Irwin Carter
Thomas Bagly, Jr
Seth
Metentile
Missouri Poultry Show Set for Trenton This December
The Missouri State Poultry Association announces the Canuel Show in Trenton scheduled for December. Event details indicate a statewide poultry display and competition hosted by local breeders and affiliated clubs.
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Missouri Poultry Show
Trenton
Missouri State Poultry Association
Rails laid by machine transform track building progress
Ernest Haller describes how a track laying machine replaces manual labor on a new rail line. A steam shovel, grader, and underground conveyors feed ties and rails, with 20 workers per rail crew and 2 per tie, constructing a graded roadbed and advancing a half mile per day.
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Rhe
Ernest Haller
Dead man on bridge over Pocahontas cut
A New Haven freight train stopped within feet of a man seen clinging to a bridge on the Pocahontas cut at One Hundred and Forty-second Street. Police officer Stockinger found the man dead, suspended by a rope, after he had tied the line and slipped between the handrail beams. The train was halted and the body lowered to the ground.
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Pocahontas Cut
Stockinger
Dream Warns Wife Of Ocean Danger To Husband
In spring 1889 a western railroad director travels east on company business despite his wife's warning of water danger. She dreamed of water threatening him and learns after his departure that he was aboard a train that passed before the Johnstown flood dam burst, but he arrives safe.
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Johnstown
Western Railroad
Indianan Engineer on Burlington Train
A Tama Musquankie descendant serves as engineer of a fast Burlington passenger train. He returns to ancestral lands, surveying familiar rivers and landscapes while guiding modern civilization. Few passengers realize a Tama Indian sits in the engine cab as it speeds the prairie.
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Tama
Burlington Road
Prairies
Burningtes
Ia) Post
Tragic Incident Near Derby Stuns Connecticut Railfans
A man was killed near Derby Conn in a failed attempt to stop a passenger train bound for New Haven and Middletown. Eyewitnesses described a doe and two bucks on the tracks as the train whistle blew, the crowd scattered, and responders attended the scene.
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Pounds
Derham
Conn
New Haven
Middletown
Beck
Train Derailment Kills Several in Carthage Route Crash
A Frisco passenger train derailed on a sharp curve near Carthage Missouri killing four or more and injuring over twenty five. The engine tender and baggage car wrecked while the day coach and sleeper rolled down an embankment into the river bed. An express messenger refused hospital care to guard valuables valued above one hundred thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
Frisco
Nea
Gineer
Becaus
Robbers Slay A Nonagenarian In Hutchinson
Police report a brutal killing in Hutchinson Kansas as Frances Gr ie an elderly Black woman is found murdered in her home on the western edge of town. She was beaten gagged and mutilated in an apparent attempt to force a confession about hidden money or valuables. Protective details indicate the suspect fled with unknown treasure.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Moore
Frances G Rie
Tohoney
Guthrie
University closes for Dr Snow funeral in Lawrence
Lawrence Kansas honors the late Dr Snow with a university wide closure and business offices closed from 3 to 4 PM. The family home hosts funeral services this afternoon, reflecting Snow’s significant contributions to the university and state.
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Snow
Lawrence
Kan
Dr. Snow
Univers
Kansas
Fires in Wellington Burn Three Barns In Suspicious Blaze Pattern
Wellington Kansas reports three fires since 3:30 a m Monday destroying barns including a double barn on Wednesday night. Incendiary suspicion grows as coal oil used at each scene and a man seen fleeing the last blaze is unidentified.
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Wellington
Kan
Manila cholera report shows rising cases in Manila
Washington report states Gov. Gen.8 records 36 cholera cases in 24 hours ending at oclock Thursday morning. From morning till four oclock Thursday afternoon 16 cases were reported as against 29 at four oclock Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Washington, D. C
Cigarette Law Upheld by State Supreme Court
Olympia reports the Winsor case ruling upholding Washington state law banning cigarette sales to minors. The decision affirms prohibition on selling cigarettes and cigarette papers, reinforcing public health regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
T News
Olympia
Winsor
S ‘Sane
Belfast Spider Weir Wins Featherweight World Title
The Belfast Spider Ike Weir claimed the featherweight world championship with a victory at his Somerville home. The Belfast Spi domestic boxing scene notes the champion, Ike Weir, prevailing in a decisive win.
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Belfast
Somerville
Mass
Isaac Oo
Ike Weir
Spi
L City
Mrs. Roosevelt Attends Senator Missouri Play in D C Box
In Washington a box at the National theater was occupied by the Mrs Roosevelt who watched the play Senator Missouri a social and political life commentary in the capital city Thursday night.
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Washington
D. C
Roosevelt
National Theater
Orm Misouri
Springs Bath House Burns in Excelsior Springs Fire
A blaze destroyed the Excelsior Sanitarium complex in Excelsior Springs Missouri on Thursday morning. The facility once operated as the Music Bathhouse before becoming the Excelsior Sanitarium. Fire crews battled the flames, no injuries reported at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Excelsior Springs
Canada Wheat Crop Progress in Western Canada
Winnipeg reports harvest progress with Canada inspecting this season s wheat crop. To date about 000 bushels have been examined at a rate near one hundred percent, indicating high quality and uniform state of the harvest.
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Canada
Winnipeg
Man
Western
Trooper Drowns at Lake Contrary in Missouri
The first death at Camp Everett Peach where 6 000 regulars are enen occurred Thursday when private J W McCawol of Baltimore Md of the Seventh Cavalry drowned at Lake Contrary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Joseph
Josep, Mo
Camp Everett
Pea
J W. McCawnl
Baltimore
T Mi
Seventh Cavalry
Contrary
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Aeon
San Francisco
Apia
Samoa Islands
Christmas Island
Dead Man
Carthace
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